An Investigation on Compliment Responses by EFL Learners in Taiwan
學年 93
學期 1
發表日期 2005-11-11
作品名稱 An Investigation on Compliment Responses by EFL Learners in Taiwan
作品名稱（其他語言）
著者 林怡弟
作品所屬單位 淡江大學英文學系
出版者 臺北市：中華民國英語文教師學會
會議名稱 The Fourteenth International Symposium on English Teaching=第十四屆中華民國英語文教學國際研討會
會議地點 臺北市, 臺灣
摘要 This research aims to investigate a subdivision of speech acts, compliments and compliment responses, and to see how EFL learners in Taiwan perceive and return compliments. The participants were sixty-seven first year English majors from two universities in Northern Taiwan. They were asked to fill out a set of discourse completion task questions regarding compliments. After the participants completed the discourse completion task questions, the data were collected and the responses were categorized into different types according to Herbert's taxonomy of compliment responses. The results showed that EFL learners do perceive compliments and give compliment responses in ways that are different from other cultural groups. It is evident that there is first culture transfer in compliments and compliment responses. EFL learners tend to accept compliments readily with appreciation token and comment acceptance. Such a behavior is against the principle of modesty of the Chinese culture. The reason may be due to their lack of linguistic skills and sociolinguistic knowledge of compliments and compliment responses. Thus, it is necessary for EFL teachers to provide information on the appropriate ways of responding to different types of compliments under the conversational principles of agreeing with the complimentee, and at the same time, avoiding self-praise.
關鍵字
語言 en
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會議性質 國際
校內研討會地點
研討會時間 20051111~20051113
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國別 TWN
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出處 第十四屆中華民國英語文教學國際研討會論文集=Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on English Teaching，頁435-442
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